...mentality is no lesser a crime than profiteering is on the field of battle. Whoever now retreats from order, from discipline, thereby admits enemies into his own ranks.

This is why I say that the new economic policy has significance also from the standpoint of teaching. You here speak of how one must teach. You must come to the point of saying that among us there is no place for the poorly educated. Then, when communism arrives, then teaching will be gentler. But now I say that teaching cannot fail to be severe—under pain of destruction.